Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

dominated by, people. But there is never any question of the quasi-object,which bears so little resemblance to people and so little to machines. Wehave been mistaken. What we had called the "technological object" iswhat lies on the garbage heap, in the scrap pile, abandoned by peopleand by other projects.The only object we have met in this story is the Aramis car in Matra'sfoyer, unless we count the CET site, which has become a haven for graffitiartists and the homeless [see Photo 2 and Photo 20] .[DOCUMENT: REPORT ON THE END OF PHASE 38, AUGUST 2, 1983]Conclusion : the work undertaken in phase 3B indicatesthat the critical problems have been satisfactorily resolvedand that full construction of the center for technologicalexperimentation can be undertaken."One more phase declared innocent!" I exclaimed. "You see? It'sgone as smoothly as clockwork. All we have left is the CET, Phase 4;that's our last hope.""If they've managed to maintain the object in this state of trouble,of turbulence, negotiation, exchange, reinscription, in the CET phase,then they're bound to succeed; they're going to turn Aramis into ananimate body. Aramis is going to live for real," Norbert cried out, quiteforgetting the sad end to this story, although he had known it all along."So we tackle the last phase?""Yes, of course! Let's head for the boulevard Victor.""I'm finally going to see something solid instead of reading documentsand technical notes. I'm finally going to do my job as anengineer.""You'd better count on being disappointed. There are still a lot ofdocuments to examine at the CET" [see Photos 9 to 18]."But the CET is much more complex than anything we've studiedup to now. How are we going to find our way around?"ARA,'v\IS AT THE CrT STAGE